Should-Read: Michael Berube: Theory Tuesday III
Should-Read: Michael Berube: Theory Tuesday III: “Sean [McCann]’s account of [how]…
…not literature, but Theory now is the special kind of expertise that challenges all other expertise, the unique kind of training that subverts all other discipline.
Contrast this account of theory with Brad DeLong’s narrative of How He Came to Grips with Foucault: for DeLong, a Foucauldian account of the history of economic brought him to see some things and take issue with others. And that’s all I would ever ask a theory to do, myself. at’s all I ever ask students to ask for, too…